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Wonder Vocabulary

This document provides definitions for 88 vocabulary words from the novel Wonder. The words are grouped into 8 parts and cover a wide range of topics from facial abnormalities and learning trades to emotions, behaviors, and branches of science. Key terms include cleft palate, hindsight, incubator, apprentice, disproportionately, meticulously, merged, phony, expulsion, audiology, and incantation.

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Wonder Vocabulary

This document provides definitions for 88 vocabulary words from the novel Wonder. The words are grouped into 8 parts and cover a wide range of topics from facial abnormalities and learning trades to emotions, behaviors, and branches of science. Key terms include cleft palate, hindsight, incubator, apprentice, disproportionately, meticulously, merged, phony, expulsion, audiology, and incantation.

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WONDER Vocabulary

First Half of Part 1

Cleft Palate – a facial abnormality where the roof of the mouth contains an opening to the nose.

Anomalies – Something that is different from the standard, normal, or expected

Hindsight – Understanding a situation or event only after it has happened

Groggily – Dazed, weak, or unsteady from illness or sleep

Electives – A course that is chosen by the student

Incubator – An enclosed controlled environment to care for small babies/eggs

Obnoxious – Extremely unpleasant

Schlep – A difficult or long journey

Second Half of Part 1

Apprentice – A person who is learning a trade from someone more skilled

Huffy – Annoyed or irritated; Quick to get angry about small things

Straggle – Grow, spread, or be laid out in an untidy way

Notion – A belief about something

Deeds – An action

Mortality – Death

Aversion – A strong dislike of something

Orc – Imaginary human-like creatures, characterized as ugly, warlike, and evil


WONDER Vocabulary
Part 2: Via

Disproportionately – When something is out of scale in size with something else

Heyday – The person of a person’s or thing’s greatest success or popularity

Prude – A person who is shocked by anything revealing

Meticulously – Showing great attention to detail; Very careful and precise

Rib – To tease someone good-naturedly

Spitefully – Showing meanness; on purpose

Quips – A witty remark

Emphatically – In a forceful way

Part 3: Summer

Merged – To combine / blend together

Hovering – To wait for linger very close by

Psyched Up – Excited and enthusiastic

Batted – To flutter your eyelashes, typically in a flirtatious manner

Morphed – To undergo or cause to undergo a slow process of transformation

Giddy – Excited, sometimes to the point of disorientation

Illuminate – To light up

Oath – A promise regarding one’s future action or behavior

Part 4: Jack

Phony – Not genuine or trustworthy

Expulsion – The process of forcing someone to leave a place

Retrospect – A survey or review of past events

Impressionable – Easily influenced


WONDER Vocabulary
Stringent – Strict regulations, requirements, or conditions

Empathy – The ability to understand and share the feelings of another person

Fringe – Not part of the mainstream; on the edge/outside of an area or group

Hypocrite – A person who claims to have moral standards or beliefs, but does not actually follow them

Part 5: Justin

Immaculate – Perfectly clean, neat, or tidy

Interjects – To say something abruptly, usually as an interruption

Fluke – An unlikely chance or occurrence, usually a surprising piece of luck.

Flits – To move swiftly and lightly

Spry – Active and lively, usually used to describe an old person

Unison – Performing an action or uttering speech at the exact same time as someone else

Monologue – A long speech in a play or movie by one person

Entitled – To give someone the right to receive or do something

Part 6: August

Audiology – The branch of medicine or science dealing with the sense of hearing

Jutting – To extend out, over, or beyond the main part of something

Bionic – Having artificial body parts, especially electromechanical ones

Taciturn – A person who is reserved or saying very little

Trembling – To shake involuntarily

Flaky – Undependable, odd, or eccentric

Ovation – An enthusiastic show of appreciation by an audience, especially with applause

Flubbed – To mess something up or a thing badly done


WONDER Vocabulary

Part 7: Miranda (only 6 words)

Remote – Distant or having little connection or relationship to

Jitters – Feelings of extreme nervousness

Restrain – To prevent from doing something; To keep under control or within limits

Swift – Moving or capable of moving at a quick speed

Mayhem – Disorderly and chaotic

Euphoric – A feeling of intense excitement and happiness

Part 8: August

Incantation – A series of words said as a magic spell or charm

Schmuck – A foolish person

Milling – To move around aimlessly in a group of people

Imbecile – A stupid person

Seismic – An enormous effect (like an earthquake)

Spiffy – Smart looking in appearance

Quantifiable – able to count or express the quantity of (amount of something)

Verbosity – The quality of using more words than needed; wordiness

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